Re: [PATCH 3/6] INIT: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootupmessages

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 13:01:49 EST


On 11/17/2009 09:49 AM, Mike Travis wrote:
>
> I'd like to say that, but Peter wanted it to become an inlined function
> return value, and there are too many references in too many arches to
> a scalar value, so that moves it out of the scope of this patch set.
>

Another thing: if we do a lot of testing for "are we running on the boot
CPU", an is_boot_cpu() or is_boot_cpu(cpu) function might be a nice
piece of syntactic sugar (and more immediately implementable.)

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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